Techie arrested for attempting to snatch woman’s chain using pepper spray

CHENNAI A 46-year-old project manager at an IT company was arrested for allegedly attacking a woman with pepper spray in an attempt to snatch her gold chain on a pedestrian footbridge near Tambaram Sanatorium. Police said he turned to chain snatching to repay debts accumulated through losses in online trading. The victim, Bhuvaneswari, 24, an MBA graduate from Chitlapakkam, works with a private financial firm in Tambaram.

She was returning home after work when she stopped on the footbridge to distribute laddus to elderly destitute people. Police said the accused, Kuppusamy of Pammal, approached her and sprayed her face with pepper spray before attempting to snatch her gold chain. She raised an alarm, drawing the attention of passers-by, who caught and thrashed the suspect before handing him over to the Tambaram police.

During interrogation, police found that Kuppusamy, a B. Com graduate, was employed as a project manager at a private IT firm on Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR).